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trrrirr Mara I 1 . - " - . , . -'-:.v8 :-.-.- - :r.--'--V4:--.-v,v--.-.-.----: v- - -J II 19 1 M F If m u I 13 1 JL A IfWI CM TT KÖHI 1S HI 0 f5)l 6mri. idWL IILIUKIITV .OAF: W TTOflEDEi SOSO!!. tÄflH ft n II I II I r Mm ii AVE you ever heard of the fed eral policemen? ThA federal policemen are tbe men who guard the sovernment't traific lines. They are men who take the greatest risks of life and limb In the performance of their dally tasks. yet they get no distinguished service crosses, no citations for bravery and no commendation for heroic conduct except th( approving nod of a buptI or and the satisfaction which em anates from the knowledge of duty well done. "Whn a business corporation takes measures of defense It must do so with one eye on the expense account, go that the coat of protection will not mount beyond the proflti or even the Income of the business. Dut when the Department of Justice teta itself to the task of chasing criminals and breaking up criminal practices, It does not need to worry over anything but the end in view. And It does not let the matter of expense stand In the way. Public Familiar TTHh Passenger Train Robberies. . v . 7 S . j ? ' 1 3 1 -r-i . . 1 . rc ' ft 3 '.tri' Si;", iV' iE v. . . . 4 5 .'V. 1 r' Ml 1 V v. j-V 1 it iv'v: 11 ed. Criminals are very much alike; It Is only an occasional exception where work does not follow certain definite precepts. Sizing up the situ- . Train robbing is no nothing, ation, the officers quickly learned how Tales of daring bandits who stop fast their prey worked; and they also t pas8engpr trains to loot the malls and learned that they were to encounter a , the passf-nRers are about as old as rail- bold and determined type, men who i roading itself. V are accustomed to carried gun3 and who could and did stories, and now to movies, in which shoot upon occasion, we find th accounts of robbers "go ing through" trains. Hut all the ro AdfttutAge Is With mancc. all th picturesqueness of tbi- ef In Ifjht Yard, form of crime has been exploited in Many circumstances peculiar to tiles of the robberies only of passen- freight yards were taken advantage of ger trains. That thieves find more by the thieves. They make very good profit In attacking freight cars has U80 or empty box car standing be been overlooked perhaps because. aide a loaded one. Once raining en when the situation Is Investigated, It trance to the loaded car, such good3 Is found out that freight train robbing a8 are desired can be removed and is a pretty common matter. placed in the empty. When the load To TemoTe the freight traffic of the er car tfl switched out of the yards the country from the attacks of thieves, Btoien goods remain in the empty and or. In any event, to lessen the damage may be taken away at leisure. A dark done, the Railroad administration has en(j 0f the y&rda 13 a bad place to established a force of federal police- leave a loaded car. As occasionally men in all the railroad centers of the when an mine or two are standing country. New York, Chicago, Denver, SQ tliat tnctr lights Illuminate tho San Francisco, Pittsburg. St Louis track yards ahead, the cars behind and all the other cities which are sufIer, for the light ot the ncs shipping and receiving centem for Bt.rvea both to prevent observers from the various railroads have branches ieeing movements around the cars and of this police system for the protection to prrait a sentinel to see anyone of goods in transit from one point to ccmlng down the tracks, so that the another. thieves can withdraw at the approach It is not altogether the matter of of an office. rlavlng hide-and-seek with thieves In order to circumvent tn auvau- acr'o.s a state which concerns the gov- tage3 galncd by the thieves' strategy. late the yards one evening. When it rrnmenf. railroad policemen. The tbe detectlvcs have naa 10 - .u.u ii , ... cwel loE,os occur right in the yard, tle, wnich has called for all the a,. : ... scaled on both 4d with a v. , iir n.nntr, 1" foism. They Baltimore and Ohio seal, and the doors around .he largo r. Iroad conccntra- trlbut 0 courage )q &c w. splkf3 Jnstcad of the poIice are certain. But thc M. Hons. uppuriuuit, s 6 ' nave uau - . ti v rn. i v, ccrs can not makn r.rrtKt nn a mm. Vrirl to lie )n wail ueuiuu iuc uvxi uuioUiug " ro.fs of cars or irmn, inis "Doomer" allowed tie car uu luanti uu ' j. V-..I 1. j. , o Httlr 10 Stay over until Iho snrnnrt nlt UUWUUb 11 Stt'US 10 DO is."'. m trrf, .;. - .-: . VV AN rv l.-r; . f fy i ' vV 1 -i VV' y -.- v.. I J- I, fit. than out on the line somewhere. When cara üave cars are lying on a siding awaiting the pnes of tics, on a 1 Thrn mpn formation of a train they are in far on the tracks under caia. rhrMr i -o.w, who prowl about freicht vards in the . . , . . ((ia f. puns 10 taiuo w v",i,-u , uui uuuet i uaiit- ,j more danger than when creeping along tblng llke a battle 01 gu gde and daytime, paying no particular heed to ibe rails behind a swcailng. panting tüe customary thing a d,fferent seal oq anylhlngi aro undoubtedly the men old mogul. There are bc era The hard- hoth doors spiked ' who come at night and break into cars. Last June, realizing the vital need inals ho molest the can, They select their objective in the day- for fighting the crimlnaU who infest e9t one to aeai time And tüey Uo lheir work SQ rallröad yardä. the government Organ- billed type VhiCh eiaP J uantouched UniS 10 lrIsOD casually that they do not seem to be behind a pile of ties near by. ; One of the hardest case9 that the load. Th others of course L-d no U,d its railroad police force, center- lca'e U to aU appearance .i When the car arrived at its destina- any criminal mission. Let ün Of- The expected happened. Three men federal agents assigned to the St. Louis iu-a where tht-y wcrf. TL('y heard ms squadrons of moil, varying In size scals intact and m aItCr word was immediately wired back ficcr of the government be moving came to the car, fcrced the door, and and East St. Louis district had to meet voices" outside th tar. Someone l - to buit the drnand of a particular lo- Another claas is one v c that it had been robbed. The records around the yards, and every stranger one of them climbed in and began to resulted in the death of one of the gan to work on the door, uraduailv Ckility. at the transportation centers of a comparatively safe n , were viewed, and suspicion fastened the place knows of it. A few 6fg- hand out the cigars and whisky to his robbers. For ten weeks in succession under the pressure of & crowbar, th ,h. railroad systems of the country. oreu the door of a so. upon the clerk when the irregularity nals are passed around the tracks, and confederates. While the three visitors a car which bore a dally consignment back shoes of the door u-rc l'ifud The new fore- did not supply the men leaving everything in m h me- 0f Ws records appeared. He was ar- everybody becomes a model of discre- were busily engaged, the officer of merchandise from St. Louis to Pe- Without breaking the boale the door who hud previously been employed by oldcr. Bunglers who p ay rested and questioned. As was to bo tIon- 0ae 5,nal which thc 3'e&en crawled out from his position on the oria, was broken into and robbed waa upened outward from th" rrar. A tho railroad.'. The now force va3 iu this manner are mere make eiPected, he denied any knowledge of have la the flapping of the arms to in- tracks under the car and, covering without any visible sign of the robbery man entered th car. Once inside L. cre-itcd ia addition to tho protection Tbey run at the flral "k tbe mUaJn6 contents of the car. But dicate "riying Squadron." Another Is the two men outside, placed them un- remaining on the car. When the con- lit a lantern which he brought with already being Utilized by the railroads. no effort to cover Up their his room was searched and in it the the tapping of the breast as two crooks dfer arrest. The lad in the car how- signment arrived at its destination, the him. Then he beijan to examine th. When th force was first establish- another class of thieves is the neg officers found much of the stuff re- Pas3 cach lher Ttis means that' cver' Eot suilcd v,iih lhe iu affairs receiver invariably found that the car contents of the car. ed it experienced the difficulties al- dement, which is to tho skilie - ported missing. The man then admit- there is an officer about thc tapping had taken, opened fire on the officer, had been entered, and a part of the Tlu, s-ipment in' the car wad made ways encountered by new organUu- ruau what a pickpocket is to a rs - ted h,s &nd conf..S3C(1 tha belQg aQ Indlcaticn of the officer's But he was not as good a shot as goods stolen. up üf tLoeV&ud clotLing. That tbr tiens. The rr.cn did not know exact- class safeblower. the aid oi outside accomplices, he had badge which is worn under the coat. UbcleSam's agent. He was the man In order to catch the thief or thievei bandit knew 111 the officers who ly how to combat the thieves. Al- During the war. whin . M J or robbcd tfle CAT He even confessed Having chosen a promising car. the later. two of Chief Sullivans men were or- weie watching his , very movement, though all tho men employed on the scarce, a lot of boomers en that his two accomplices and he bandits return at night to reap the whose funeral was held two days dcred to lock themselves in the car decided Uo proceeded to pass trom fore- were experienced iaen. some of game and played it from f m " Panned a prolonged engagement at harvest of their selection. .But they On another occasion the officers one night and await developments ono box of shoes to another until h' them being expert detectives, their sidlous standpoint possible Irüm that particular yard, where he could want more than the mere darkness to discovered a quant: ty of rubber tires The chief was the only outsider who found the izo h- Fought. H- brok- knowledge of the methods employed inside. A boomer" is a an n o. use hia iß5ide podlUoa Q jx aiu them In their work. They are cer- cached in an out-of-the-way corner of knew of the move. The car was load- open th- shipping box and reached by their new foe was not very great, just released from prison, gets tern- blng cafg Ju resumt.j hjs aCQUaiut. taia to piCk a favorable or strategic a railroad yard. They immediately ed as usual and just before" it was down for a" pair of shoes'." IMd. ntlv So. for a time, they had to devote porary employment whtJi help is bad- ance Ltavenwortli three weeks position. If a loaded car is standing inferred that the articles hed been sealed the two detectives slipped in- b-tislud with them he put the &os themselves to a fttudy of the situation ly needed. These -boomers were a ag0 alongside of an empty, or if the car freshly stolen. Upon examination the side. They had vith them a jug of under hi- arm a'id turned 'to se- what and of the habits of the freight-car source of considerable trouble, tut Sunivan 5tates. however, that the to be attacked ia In an out-of-the-way records uhowed no notice of the theft water, a day's ration, their revolvers elothin- he wanted thieves. cre uot as hard 10 UaCe a lhe mre "hoomer" has about passed with the corner of the yards, or if an engine's cf the tires had vet been received, with spare ammunition, and a pair of' t lids r.oment the- cfilcers Mood Crooks who rob freight cars are no polished craftsman. - availability of honest men to pick headlight or the light of a building il- The conclusion made was that tho axes with which to cut their way out , -.ad'comaedtd" th- robber to burglars. They do their work with T. J. Sullivan, the chief special cf- from wUh thJ return 0j oM raU. laminates the approach to the car to thief would return that night to carry oC the car in the event that the re-gu- thrower d H. Lands and S' rreder lh such skill and proficiency that a car ileer In charge of the Flying Squad- rcad mea whQ haye bcea .Q tfle amy tbat from dar!: b(y0nd the robbers the tires away. lar schedule of the trip miscarried and whirled around as he l-J-d "tLem'-d may start from. say. St. Louis, with urn of one of the largest yards ia the or lhe n c&a detect anybody coming in their Accordingly two ofScers were de- a serious delay ensued. ra... a Vi, i,f.tl.rr, 'r" n- vrS all the entrances scaled and even country, relates the stoi) oi a Doom The man who makes robbing of direction, then they consider that the tailed to watch thc cashe all night. The two officers selected a position nin it at th.- two officers U- fore he nailed down and arrive iu PtAria next er" who, for his assiduous work in re- (reigM car a profession means buil- setting is favorable enough to go to ia3t midnight a wagon containing at one end of the or and settled them- COuld succeed in tLJs one of V d- day apparently as intact as when it moving various articles from freight ne33t Ia xhQ covardly way in wWca work. four men drove up and three of the selves behind a barricade of boxt s and ttctives had fired, "striking thVarm started. But upon examination the cars as they passed through East St. be dofs tuslness. He is invariably One Man Killed, Others men dismounted. crates. Presently the car was picked which held tie lantern Thc rebber contents will he found to have been Louis, returned to the Federal Prison arme4 wltn a g0Oj.glzt(jt workable Are Sent to IVnitentiarj. . The three men approached thc tip end switched back and forth while immediately pull', d 'his" gun and're- libexally removed. Where the robbery at Leavenworth exactly one year aft- six-shooter, which he knows how to In the last month two men went to stolen tires and bean to carry them lhe train was being made- up. The turned the fire as committed, how It could have er he had been released from that in- use He takes advantage of night's thc Federal Penitentiary for stealing back to the wagon when the officers regular trip of th,. car was to Peoria. iu the 'narro'w confines of a freight been done without break.ng the seals stitution. darkness, usually maneuvers so that a quantity of whisky and cigars. The stepped out and called on them to halt, where it was to be delivered to the C. cr which was fairly well filled with of the car. hat sort cf criminals were The man, after his release, drifted üe wlll tave a favorable position if third member of the bandit trio which The man in the wagon immediately p- aEd St. L. Railway for delivery at poods. the thn v poured the contents doing the Job all had to be analyzed about for a long time until he finally attacked, and Is willing to give battle "pulled" the Job was buried rwo days whipped the horse and drove away, some point along the line ofthat road. 0f tfit'ir revolvers at each other. The and studied by the federal agents be- landed in a certain city, and because If need be. after the allalr. The police noticed The other three began to fire, but 0 n ,.-tf policemen fuund Le empty chamber lore they could begin an elective of the shortage of men got a Job as The work for the night is decided during thc daytime that a cfr uas r- when one man wert down, th.j other , in the bandit'- gun and three marks campaign against the outlaws. yard clerk Just befor tho war ended, upon in the daytime. The Jesse James ceiving particular attention from a two surrendered. They are now serv- 0Dt Krt'aklD the Sea!. on his body where their shots had The- officers were not long in asccr- He was not very long at work until of the freight yards utilizes the day pair of strangers. Just after dark an ing their terms in the federal prison. Finally the train b-gan to move out found the targrt. A3 the man d.opptd taining th-difference a in method which an irregularity appeared among thc to spot the cars which he will rob at officer, well wrapped in a big over- and tho wounded man is slowly re- and it went as far as the Bremen ave- he fell across th- pair of shoo. he had wer- due to the different environment cars which he checked. A freight car night. That the robbers are among ccat. crawled underneath the car to covering to go to trial fur his saare of nue yards in .St. Louis before it made stolen, dying with the- purloined good In Lich tho robberies cre commltt- containing clothing and shoes came the many hangers-oa around the yards await events. Another found a s;ot the party. another stop to add more cars to the la his hand.